Articles | Volume 23, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-23-175-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-23-175-2016
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08 Jul 2016
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Multi-scale statistical analysis of coronal solar activity

Diana Gamborino, Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, and Julio J. Martinell

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We use temperature maps of the solar corona for three regions and use a technique that separates multiple timescales and space scales to show that the small-scale temperature fluctuations appear more frequently prior to the occurrence of a solar flare, in comparison with the same region after the flare and with a quiet region. We find that, during the flare, energy flows from large to small scales and heat transport associated with a heat front is convective along and diffusive across the front.